This may be wrong even for 1906, but book is consistent (See "Converge".), so I'm leaving it as is.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor

A cette époque, pratiquement personne n'avait d'accès internet chez soi… C'est en novembre 1996 que nous avons commencé à numériser des livres rares provenant de notre bibliothèque ou du prêt inter-bibliothèques.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

If this happens in the most reflective and deliberate of activities, like this of composition, how much more does it happen in positive action, "The die is cast," said Caesar, feeling a decision in himself of which he could neither count nor weigh the multitudinous causes; and so says every strong and clear intellect, every well-formed character, seizing at the same moment with comprehensive instinct both its purposes and the means by which they shall be attained.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I can still call his woebegone appearance to mind.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Then Sir Gawain sprang up and said, “Now have we all been fed by miracle with whatsoever food we thought of or desired; but with our eyes we have not seen the blessed vessel whence it came, so carefully and preciously it was concealed.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

His young wife, so Venden told the story—he had been married half a year—was at church with her mother, and suddenly overcome by indisposition, arising from her interesting condition, she could not remain standing, she drove home in the first sledge, a smart-looking one, she came across.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The question was, where I could lodge: she consulted her maid on this point—I hardly dared to breathe during the deliberation; but when I heard I was to sleep in the house, I could scarce contain my joy; and saw the little bundle I brought with me carried into my destined apartment with much the same sensations as St. Preux saw his chaise put up at Madam de Wolmar’s.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It cannot, said Charnock, be the mere act, it must be the cause, that makes killing assassination.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"Well, and was it Chalks?" said Clarice, tapping her foot, impatiently.
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

“Some one exploded a big dynamite bomb right in the street, in front of the Fifth Infantry camp,” said Captain Moss to me, “and killed four men and wounded a dozen more.
— from Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington

And the interesting columns Show contributors in numbers,— Many writers of the city Furnished items and productions.
— from The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky To the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

Born in Leicester, Mass., and died in Charleston, S. C. He painted portraits in Charleston, S. C., and died suddenly of yellow fever when he was preparing to return to England.
— from Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society by New-York Historical Society

“But I can scarcely call him wilful either,” said Mrs Atheling, hastily.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Vol. 1/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"I can scarcely comprehend your conduct," said Montague, after another pause.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds